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Complying with Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations won't guarantee that your workplace will be accident free. However, a look at the most common OSHA rule violations — listed below — shows where many employers are falling short in their safety regimes and where OSHA needs to tighten enforcement.
Here are the top 10 areas of violation for manual labor and industrial job.
It's easy to imagine the kinds of injuries that correspond to the violations listed above. For example, sprains or broken bones, if not worse, can easily result when the safety procedures to prevent falls aren't followed.
Typical Office Injuries
For office workers, the list of most common violations and injuries is much shorter. Here are the top injuries in a typical office, according to a report from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, plus a few comments from the report about each risk category:
It's one thing to know OSHA rules and common sense safety procedures. It's another to impart the knowledge to employees in a manner that will make it stick and remain at the forefront of their consciousness. That's where "adult learning principles" come into play.
Adult Learning Patterns
Malcolm Knowles, the late pioneering educator, enumerated six adult characteristics that have specific implications for how they can most effectively be taught. Here's the rundown, and their implications for workplace safety training.
Adult learners:
Above all else, employees need to perceive that the company's goal in providing safety training isn't merely to satisfy OSHA or other regulatory requirements, but instead comes from company leadership's genuine concern for the well-being of its workforce.
Workplace safety training services and curricula sales are a booming industry. When choosing services and materials, keep employees' learning styles and personal perspectives in mind to assure the best training result, and, ultimately, a zero-injury track record.
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